ALC102 Contemporary Communication: Making Sense of New Media b g W T2 1CP This unit introduces students to the study of contemporary communication in new media. It offers a critical vocabulary with which to analyse the various discourses, cultures and technologies associated with the new media. The unit examines some moral, legal and ethical implications of the new media and links them with contemporary political, social and cultural concerns such as new literacies, power relations, gender, race, ethnicity and multi-culturalism. Assessment: Essay one 1000 words (20%), Essay two 1500 words (30%), Essay three 2000 words (40%), Tutorial/DSO participation (10%).
ACM111 Sound, Light, Motion b T2 1CP
ACM116 Screen Practices b T2 1CP
ALJ216 Research for Writers g W T1 b T3 1CP
The unit will enable the student to:
This unit examines the issues and practices associated with film and video production. It explores the ways in which film and video production practices have developed across their historical traditions to their contemporary practices. Topics to be addressed in this unit include: film and video histories; forms, genres, narrative systems, cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, alternatives to continuity editing, sound, narrative, documentary and experimental practices.
In this unit students are expected to combine journalism skills with academic techniques of research. The aim this trimester is to develop research and writing skills to a level where the student can produce feature articles suitable for publication. There is strong emphasis on finding original information from sources ranging from interviews to the Internet.
> develop skills in film and video design, production and teamwork > safely and creatively operate film and video production equipment > demonstrate an understanding of tone, contrast, perspective and montage > design shots and scenes with attention to lighting, camera movement and the relationship between sound and image > locate resources that support film and video production including specialist journals, monographs, audio-visual and on-line publications > use appropriate terminology and diagrammes to describe and analyse the technical and creative elements of imaginative filmmaking. During workshops, camera, microphone, and lighting technique will be practiced in dynamic studio and location situations. By building folios of practical exercises, the student will establish a foundation of skill in film and video production. Assessment: Health and safety hurdle: Students will be required to undertake workshops in the safe use of electrical and mechanical filmmaking equipment and to pass a test of safe operational competence before embarking on practical assessment tasks for this unit. Practical workshop tasks: Exercises to test skill development and technical knowledge acquisition 20%, folio assignment 1, 30%, folio assignment 2, 50%.
Assessment: Assignment 1: mise-en-scene (800 words) 20%, assignment 2: storyboard (1600 words) 40%; oral presentation (5 minutes) 10%; essay (1200 words) 30%. ALJ111 Contemporary Journalism b g W T1 1CP Students discover, through their own experiences while preparing practical work in journalism, some of the ways in which journalists work. They are invited to consider criticisms of Australian journalists including allegations of bias, lack of good taste, trivialisation, sensationalism, invasion of privacy and dishonest methods used to obtain information. Topics include institutionalised ways of dealing with those allegations such as the Australian Press Council and the journalists’ code of ethics. Assessment: On campus: One practical assignment 1500 words 35%, class work 15%, written examination 50%.
Assessment: Research file equivalent 1000 words 20%, two articles of 2000 words each 40% each. ALJ301 Multi-Media Journalism g T2 1CP The unit will teach: blogging; moblogging; writing for multimedia; newsgathering in a multimedia environment; writing for online journalism; and how to maintain a web site. The theory base will consider the power of multi-media in a changing media world, and consider the strengths and weaknesses of various media, leading to an appreciation of the potential of multi-media journalism to reach more of a fragmented audience. Assessment: Write a weekly individual blog (20%); work in teams to produce content for a web site (20%); presentation (in teams) about the web site (20%); 2,000-word essay on multi-media journalism (40%).
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